Medical Examiner guidelines dying of Texas A&M scholar a suicide

Texas A&M undergrad Brianna Aguilera was in Austin for the Aggies v. Longhorns football game. — Texas A&M undergrad Brianna Aguilera was in Austin for the Aggies v. Longhorns soccer sport. Credit score: Fb / Stephanie Rodriguez

The Travis County Medical Examiner’s Workplace on Friday formally dominated the dying of 19-year-old Texas A&M scholar Brianna Aguilera a suicide, KSAT reviews.

The findings of the medical expert are the identical as these of the Austin Police Division, which final month mentioned their investigation additionally indicated Aguilera took her personal life. APD dominated that she jumped off the balcony of a good friend’s residence within the metropolis’s West Campus neighborhood.

Police additionally discovered a suicide word on Aguilera’s telephone that she deleted days earlier than her dying.

Even so, Houston-based private damage legal professional Tony Buzbee and San Antonio-based Gamez Regulation Agency filed a wrongful dying swimsuit on the household’s behalf, arguing the scholar wasn’t suicidal.

“The Austin Police Division’s ‘investigation’ fell woefully quick,” Buzbee mentioned in a press release to KSAT. “Brianna deserved higher. Her household deserves higher.”

Buzbee has accused APD of conducting a shoddy investigation and failing to interview key witnesses contained in the residence on the time of Aguilera’s fall.

“[APD] did not interview all witnesses, did not take statements below oath, did not put collectively an correct timeline, did not safe video footage, and most significantly, did not observe via and interview witnesses, even those that we recognized for them,” he mentioned in a press release to TMZ.

If you happen to or somebody you realize is scuffling with psychological well being or ideas of suicide, name 988 or textual content TALK to 741-741.

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